PITCHFORK: Jonathan Richman “Only Frozen Sky Anyway” (7.8)
SOURCE By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Genre: Rock Label: Blue Arrow Reviewed: July 22, 2025 Jonathan Richman has spent the better part of his five-plus-decade career as a sunny, reassuring presence on the fringes of American rock, rhapsodizing about the mundane rhythms of everyday life. He never came close to the Billboard charts but his cult was big enough to […]
PITCHFORK: The Sisters of Mercy “Floodland” (9.1 Rating)
SOURCE The Sisters of Mercy were pure evil right from the jump. Their sound was so identifiable, so simple and evocative, that it formed its own strand in the DNA of goth music. After a run of increasingly well-crafted singles and EPs, the Leeds band’s 1985 full-length debut, First and Last and Always, crystallized this identity: a […]